Feminist security studies

Wibben, Annick T. R.

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“…Burke 2007;Der Derian 1995;Huysmans 1998) whose work promotes an opening of security studies (cf. Wibben 2008, Wibben 2011. Scholars working with a poststructuralist agenda, even if they are not feminists, tend to be working toward an opening of security studies already and be more familiar with this argumentation (cf.…”

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“…Studying the everyday experiences of violence by variously located subjects, feminists find that questions of identity and security are fundamentally interwoven; any security narrative is also a narrative of political identity (Peterson 1992;Stern 2005Stern , 2006Sylvester 1989Sylvester , 1993. FSS, then, needs to investigate identity and security as mutually constitutive and shifting, even as some aspects are more enduring than others -and seemingly incommensurable (Wibben 2011). …”

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“…It is my contention that feminist aims and the scope of their concerns explode the confines of security studies at every possible turn (cf. Wibben 2011). The push to establish FSS as a subfield of security studies as is, which risks the securitization of ever more issues while relinquishing input into addressing them, is a dangerous one.…”

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“…Recent articles in Security Studies (Sjoberg 2009) and International Security (Hudson et al 2008/9) specifically address the contributions of FSS to the field of security studies, a network of scholars working in FSS is regularly represented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, and the terminology has been used in many recent publications (e.g. Hansen 2009;Shepherd 2010;Sjoberg and Martin 2010;Wibben 2009Wibben , 2011. 1 Given the proliferation of feminist security scholarship, which is based on a variety of feminisms, feminist scholars should begin to debate the content and scope of their research.…”

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“…Most current feminist (see, for example, Wilkinson, 1988;Reinharz, 1992;Wibben, 2010) and post-structuralist research uses reflexivity with precisely that intention: to deal with power imbalances between the researcher and the participant and to produce less distorted accounts of the social world (Hertz, 1997). If, based on a post-structuralist and feminist methodology, we accept that reality and the truth are socially created and that subjects are decentralized, then how should we deal ith the t uth that e, as researchers, produce?…”

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Dimensions of Health Security—A Conceptual Analysis

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2020

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COVID-19 pandemic is a stark example of health security politics, despite the pandemic not being currently labeled as a health security concern in political discourse. With high levels of morbidity and mortality globally and a highly contagious pathogen this pandemic is a prime and unprecedented example of a global health security threat. Analyses of the politics and practicalities of confronting health-related threats, of policy options and institutional approaches, however, hinge on the way these challenges are constructed and on the way the dimensions of the concept of health security are charted. In 2015 Horton and Das noted that there was no simple definition of health security. [5] Indeed, there has been little consensus among analysts over the meaning and parameters of health security. [16-19] These disagreements, Aldis argues, have effects beyond analytical debates, as they hinder communications and collaboration on global health initiatives, creating confusion and mistrust among stakeholders. [18] They also inhibit comparative evaluation, critique of existing analysis, or the possibility of consistent policy recommendations. Conceptual analyses of the two constitutive parts of health security illustrate the difficulties of coming up with a simple definition and the inherent tensions and contestations in such debates. Given these difficulties, it is argued here that a framework for conceptual analysis of "health security," instead of a fixed definition, would provide valuable space to evaluate the key features of existing analysis, the explicit and implicit assumptions about the nature and parameters of health security politics underpinning current policy responses, as well as possible alternative conceptualizations and ways of thinking about health security. Health security politics is a burgeoning and contested field of analysis and practice with the potential to affect security thinking beyond its own parameters. This article aims to contribute to debates both about the scope and meaning of health security and about the scope and meaning of security more broadly. To achieve this, it first presents a brief review of the scope and focus of contemporary conceptual debates of health security; second, it applies Baldwin's [20] framework for the concept of security to demonstrate how conservative the current definition of health security is; and thirdly, it proposes an alternative framing with a view to demonstrate the benefits of thinking about health security in broader more inclusive ways, which has the potential to improve global responses to current and future health-related challenges. Discussions of the politics and practicalities of confronting health security challenges-from infectious disease outbreaks to antimicrobial resistance and the silent epidemic of noncommunicable diseases-hinge on the conceptualization of health security. There is no consensus among analysts about the specific parameters of health security. This inhibits comparative evaluation and critique, and affects the consistency of a...

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Feminist security studies

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